a child of the depression, 78-year-old fiora from chicago. since world war ii, we have never been asked to sacrifice anything to help our country, except the blood of our heroic men and women. as president, what sacrifices will you ask every american to make to help restore the american dream and to get out of the economic morass that we're now in? >> well, fiora, i'm going to ask the american people to understand that there are some programs that we may have to eliminate. i first proposed a long time ago that we would have to examine every agency and every bureaucracy of government. and we're going to have to eliminate those that aren't working. i know a lot of them that aren't working. one of them is in defense spending, because i've taken on some of the defense contractors. i saved the taxpayers $6.8 billion in a deal for an air force tanker that was done in a corrupt fashion. i believe that we have to eliminate the earmarks. and sometimes those projects, not the overhead projector that senator obama asked for, but some of them that are re